We have come into the practice of sitting in a folding chair outside of Cakie’s door as he falls asleep. To some of you this may seem extreme or unnecessary. (My mom keeps asking me if we still do it.) To us it is a giant leap from when we had to sit in his [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 28, 2009
How Many Moms Is Too Many? And, Harold.
This past week was my tenth anniversary with my honey. She still likes me for some reason. I’m grateful and blessed and blissed. I’m also so very glad she can take a hint. For the past two years I have been STRONGLY suggesting she take me to my boyfriend’s restaurant.
This weekend, she did.
But before we [...]
April 24, 2009
In Case You Were Wondering…
“ice the girls around the time I usually pump”
Not as simple as it seemed when I wrote that last post.
Brrrr.
April 23, 2009
Pump Down the Jam
I have no love for the pump.
I’m going to dump her. It just isn’t working out. She’s always, “Me, me, me.” (Or as the case may be, double trouble double trouble double trouble.) I need some time for myself. I’m breaking this thing off.
So after talking to several people — including my lactation consultant – [...]
April 20, 2009
Baby Hogs
This a little follow-up to a post written by firsttimesecondtime, the link is in my last post.
I’m thinking about baby hogging. While I was reading ftst’s post about how she’s a little afraid her personality might cause her to become that very same type of gestational parent baby hog she often dislikes in other relationships, [...]
April 18, 2009
The Book… A Little Phoenixy Thing
I am getting back to the book.
I just had to stop to share with you all that I think it is a little magic how writing to you beautiful strangers about writing or not writing the book makes me write the book. First, I wanted to write the book. So I thought I’d just blog [...]
April 5, 2009
This Writer’s Block
If you go to the top of my home page, you’ll see a page about my book. The book I’m supposed to be writing. Supposed to have written by now, more likely.
We were tweaking the proposal. Which was really good, but the sample chapter maybe wasn’t the perfect subject matter for a proposal. We were [...]